Doctor, patient expectations differ on fitness and lifestyle tracking

With apps and activity trackers measuring every step people take, morsel they eat, and each symptom or pain, patients commonly arrive at doctor's offices armed with self-tracked data. Yet health-care providers lack the capacity or tools to review five...

With apps and activity trackers measuring every step people take, morsel they eat, and each symptom or pain, patients commonly arrive at doctor’s offices armed with self-tracked data. Yet health-care providers lack the capacity or tools to review five years of Fitbit logs or instantaneously interpret the deluge of data patients have been collecting about themselves, according to new University of Washington research.